Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1887-10-19
News Items.

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The beer brewers, it is said. make a
profit of SEA barrel, and the retailers So.
The relation between Germany and
Russia are reported as becoming very
bitter.
The deadly car stove must go-right
into its old familiar place in the cor
ner of the car.
It is said that 10000 children are
waiting for seats in the public schools
of Philadelphia.
James G. Blaine will stay in Paris
for several weeks if the weather does
not get too cold.
About three million dollars worth of
cigars were made in Philadelphia and
neighborhOod last year.
The peach crop of Delaware, Mary
land, and New Jersey this year only
reached about 100000 baskets.
Citizen George Francis Train was
given thirty minutes in which to leave
Chicago, and he went in less time.
Messrs. Swinburne, Stewart, and
Morgan, the first of the British arbi-
tration delegates, arrived in New York.
Bible readings in parlors of evening
is Boston notion which may become
popular in this section before the adj
vent of 1900.
Rock salt has been found at Ithaca,
N. Y. 1900 feet below the surface.
The discovery was made while boring
for natural gas.
In his annual report Land Commits
sioner Sparks makes charges of i'm
mense fraud in the disposition of Gov
erment lands in the West.
The proposition for a government
telegraph system is revived by the
transfer of the Baltimore and Ohio
Telegraph to the Western Union.
The campaign in New York State is
developing the fact that political litera-
ture on the tariff is being called for by
the people to an extent never known
before.
The Boston Record warns the Repub-
LEANS of Massachusetts, that the saloon
interest is putting its hand pretty deep
into its pocket to aid the Democrats in
that state.
Anarchist Spies has made a written
statement in which he says that he and
his six companions in misery are vic
Tins of an organized conspiracy against
the cause of labor.
Prohibitionists all over the land are
holding services to the memory of
John b. Finch, of Illinois, one of their
bright lights, who died suddenly at
Boston recently.
Levi p. Morton, Senator Hiscock,
Thomas G. Platt, Cornelius N. Bliss and
Stephen B. Elkins have bought the
New York Graphic and will appear as
Republican paper hereafter.
How close Indiana is is shown by the
fact that eight Democratic members of
the Legislature were chosen last No
vember by an aggregate majority of
457, or an average of 81 each.
The chestnut crop is turning out the
largest for many years. The price is
50 %, while cultivated chestnuts. a
much larger nut than the ordinary one.
commands $3.50 and $500 per bushel.
In Roane county w. Va, Rev. Thos.
p. Ryan was shot and killed by masked
robbers. In battle between the rob-
bers and three hundred citizens two of
the robbers were killed.
The English Government are appar.
emily at their wits end in attempting
to apply coercion IN Ireland. Pro-
clamation avails little if anything, and
suppression does not suppress.
We may naturally expect to soon
have to pay more for telegraph service
than we have been doing for the mast
year or two. The Western Union has
purchased the Baltimore & Ohio Tel
egraph Company, and the consolidation
of the two rivals means increased rates
to the public, Twas ever thus. and
will be no exception IN this case,